Rise up O God, and defend Your cause. Remember how the fool mocks You all day.
Remember how the enemy mocked, Adonai, and how foolish people despised Your Name.
“Now therefore, what do I have here?” —it is a declaration of Adonai— “My people are taken away for nothing? Its rulers wail” —it is Adonai’s declaration— “and My Name is continually blasphemed all day long.
For the music director: on Mahalath, a contemplative song of David.
Incline Your ear, Adonai, and hear! Open Your eyes, Adonai, and see! Listen to the words of Sennacherib that he has sent to mock the living God.
Arise, awaken to my defense, to my cause—my God and my Lord!